March 14, 2009

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I have a piece up on the fallout from Jon Stewart's interview with Jim Cramer, and also looked at whether there's any similarities between a previous confrontation by "The Daily Show" host.

Still, viewers have at times grown weary of cable television's need for heated political debate shows—most notably, following Stewart's October 2004 appearance on CNN's "Crossfire." There, Stewart told hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala that they should "stop hurting America."

"I'm here to confront you," Stewart said, "because we need help from the media and they're hurting us."

Stewart was declared the victor by many in the media after that appearance, and less than three months later CNN pulled the plug on the 22-year-old right-left shout-fest.

Upon "Crossfire's" cancelation, network president Jon Klein noted the Stewart critique, telling the Washington Post that "he made a good point about the noise level of these types of shows, which does nothing to illuminate the issues of the day."

Carlson, reached Friday, described Stewart as "a partisan demagogue."

"Jim Cramer may be sweaty and pathetic—he certainly was last night—but he's not responsible for the current recession," Carlson told POLITICO. "His real sin was attacking Obama's economic policies. If he hadn't done that, Stewart never would have gone after him. Stewart's doing Obama's bidding. It's that simple."

Begala said that "as an Overpaid TV Guy myself, I hate to see the Overpaid TV Community ripped apart in this time of crisis."

As to whether Stewart's takedown could again impact cable punditry, Begala said he had "no clue."

And simply because media pundits hyperventilate when Stewart wags his finger, it doesn't mean network executives will respond accordingly.

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IF the honcho's at networks were smart or interested in GOOD REPROTING , they WOULD listen up for Stewart was just saying out loud, on the air what much of the audience assess the media scene as well!! NOT JUST ONE NETWORK , think they need to realize the estimation hold cross the entire field with the partisan marketed triping hype !!!

Well if anyone on earth knows what a partisan demagogue is, it's Tucker "partisan demagogue." Carlson.
Honestly Tucker is such a worthless hack he has no right to comment on anyone. I guess he's still hurting over the fact that his so called career has been in free fall since Stewart called him out on Crossfire.

who cares what Carlson thinks, he is washed up pretty face. That is all that the news media is now a days. If your not good looking they don't want you. These prety faces have no substance. So when some one takes on their bull they get offended. Clean house and get some real commentators Good Job Jon, keep it up.

So Carlson apparently has missed the point of this. He not once attacked CNBC or Cramer in that interview for disagreeing with Obama's economic policies. Stewart's argument is that the financial/business news media is misleading the public, even if the public is only a slice of demographic, but non-the-less still misleading the public, by saying things are peachy, and to buy buy buy, then sell sell sell when they know full well what is happening.
Carlson you're a hack, no wonder your show is gone, you can't even muster the thought process to understand Jon Stewart's argument. P.i.s.s. off.

I'm still savoring Stewart's dismanteling of Cramer. Strewart once again demonstrated how mainstream media has become mediatainment and has lost any connection to factual unbiased reporting.
Thank God for independet media like the Huffington Post and Mother Jones.

My favorite part of the article was "Carlson, reached Friday..."
How long did it take to reach that non-entity?
What's he doing nowadays? Interning at the American Enterprise Institute? Speechwriting for Bobby Jindal?

Tucker Carlson should swallow his own bile calling Jon Stewart partisan. This self styled arrogant shill is about as tone deaf and muted to the state of the country as his mentor Rush Limpbaugh. These neo cons have lost their propaganda but will continue their assassinations as long as some people will allow them.

Well if anyone on earth knows what a partisan demagogue is, it's Tucker "partisan demagogue." Carlson. Honestly Tucker is such a worthless hack he has no right to comment on anyone. I guess he's still hurting over the fact that his so called career has been in free fall since Stewart called him out on Crossfire.
What Stewart said is the truth. The financial networks (among others) were cheerleading this whole thing. If Stewart was doing this at 'Obama's bidding', he would have taken on that last goofball, Santelli. Screaming at regular people for being 'losers' and excusing the greedy guilty ones who caused all this. As for Tucker, he should crawl under that same rock Georgie is hiding under and stay there.

This guy's a sore loser. Only someone who was a "partisan demagogue" in his own right could possibly make such a ridiculous assertion. Stewart did not once claim that Cramer was "responsible for the current recession." Nor did he say anything about Cramer's criticism of Obama's policies. For that matter, it's not even accurate to say that Stewart had "gone after" Cramer. He was calling out CNBC for being an uncritical mouthpiece for corporate CEOs.

Christopher is right on... Stewrat never mentioned Obama in this whole thing. Yes Stewart is an Obama supporter. But this was about CNBC and Stewart's legit criticisms about CNBC. Yet Carlson is using the issue to take shots at Obama. Yet Carlson calls Stewart a partisan demagogue??? BTW who in the h_ll is Tucker Carlson?

I hope there's some analysis of the similarities in the situations, that when the people who talk to the nation through the medium of television are in the tank for entrenched power, the voting, investing public are liable to become victims of ignorance that is really just a mirror of the self-serving assumptions of power and those who "report" on those power centers. Truth is subservient to access, and tomorrow's filing cannot be jeopardized by a truth that will cut off access.

Typical loud mouthed Tucker "a partisan demagogue." himself. He should take a lesson from Jon and try backing up his claims with facts.
Tucker misrepresents Stewart's position by implying that Jon Stewart claimed that Cramer was responsible for the current recession.
Cramer's "... real sin was ...." admittedly lying and deceiving the public.
Stewart is doing your job Tucker wake up!

Oh, PLEASE! Carlson IS such a partisan hack he can't recognize someone who is standing back and calling for accountability rather than inconsequential blather that only incites anger and irrationality and clouds the REAL issues. Certainly Cramer didn't CREATE the economic disaster we are left with, but he was a MAJOR contributor (as Stewart pointed out, he participated in the dishonesty as a hedge fund manager, understood the lies and deceit that was designed to enrich a few and scam millions AS AN INSIDER, and then because he was pushed as an authority by getting his own show CONTRIBUTED to the problem in a major way. No, he didn't create the mess, but he was personally responsible for dealing out "advice" that caused thousands to lose millions.
Thank God for a sensible voice like Jon Stewarts. And shame on morons and immoral egotists like Carlson AND Begala who think no one has the right to spank them when they cross over to destructive behavior (when they LIVE to jump all over anyone elses tiniest misstep). They are nothing but a couple of crybabies. WAAAAAHHH!

tucker carlson is a wingnut irrelevant jerk! he's once again wrong and once again proving why he's a "loser" and can't keep a show, he did plenty of bush's bidding so he really should just shut up and go away!

Carlson does, in fact, look like he wears pink panties. Perhaps, that explains his misogyny. Well, what do you expect from a privileged white boy who grew up to find that no one else thought he was so special. He is also terribly illiterate, if one judges by his many grammatical mistakes.

Tucker is still licking his wounds from the pasting that he got from a mere comedian a couple of years ago.

It's ironic that Carlson would attack Stewart for expressing his opinions on a comedy show, yet he defends the maliciously extreme partisan demagoguery of Limbaugh who expects to be taken seriously and regards himself as the leader of the conservative movement.

You are right Tucker. Who the hell is cares about Stewart's take..the former MTV jock has no basis for his high and mighty take on Kramer or CNBC. I am so sick of this adult men in love with Mr. O. Matthews and Stewart should get a room and watch their guy destory this country...

Well, if anyone knows what a partisan demagogue is, it would be Tucker Carlson. So let's see, what have these two d-gue's been up to? One has a hugely popular TV show and even hosts the Oscars. The other responds to e-mails with his "sour grapes rants."

come on people there is no way stewart goes after cramer if cramer doesnt criticize the obama policies. like or dont like carelson but he goes after repubs and dems alike. stewart is a hack and i find it amazing that anyone can think his sissy boy smirk is funny

Thanks to John Stewart! who had the courage to slam those idiots giving people their "financial" opinions. After listening to Cramer tell someone how he plays the market even tho it might be unlawful but so what! the SEC is to stupid to pickup on it, makes my blood boil. It was pure greed for Cramer!! He didn't give a fig about the viewer listening to him!!

Tucker Carlson would do well to just shut up. His little pea brain has been far too busy himself spewing partisan crap. What is it that Tucker thinks he does? Has he ever been anything but a little partisan water carrier for the right wing? I don't think so.

The only "partisan demagogue" is the defrocked Tucker Carlson. Cramer didn't criticize Obama's economic policy; he tried to prop up Bush's cratering economic policy, such as it was. Cramer should be fired, along with Maria B. and most of the other CNBC on-air hosts and the network completely reconfigured. An instructional channel for aspiring clowns sounds about right.

No, Tucker, Cramer's "real sin" was blaming the new president for the "greatest destruction of wealth by any president" when in fact Cramer was involved in deliberately driving down stock prices--i.e., "destroying wealth"--after shorting them, in order to make money for himself. Tucker doesn't seem to understand that there is a whole class of traders out there who deliberately try to destroy companies in order to profit from shorting them. Obama isn't one of them, but Cramer is. Tucker could do us all a lot of good by criticizing THAT, instead of taking on a comedian. Everyone seems to be willfully missing the point.

So now added to the sheer pleasure of watching Cramer get taken apart, I get to be reminded of when Jon Stewart did the same to Carlson years back. Which by the way was directed equally at both "sides" of the crossfire hosts, Begala as well as Carlson (Tucker got a little extra snark as slapdown because he tried being a smarmy fool in return, but Stewart clearly was addressing both the Democrat and Republican on that show).
So much for Stewart being just a political partisan.
The thing is, when the right has become a comically extreme caricature, then they're going to come under fire from a sharp satirist like Stewart somewhat more often. Even many Republicans now admit what Stewart was saying for years, that George Bush and Co were complete clowns.
Carlson vs. Stewart, round two. Guess who wins? Again.

Kind of funny that Stewart would rip anyone for objective reporting when......he clearly does partisan promoting.
FTR: Cramer did not cause the economic crisis nor was he alone in being wrong about it. Obama economists all missed it too and.....have hurt the economy. Undeniable fact.

So Tucker watched the complete discussion between Cramer and Stewart and his take away is..."but he's(Cramer)not responsible for the current recession,"? Tucker thought Stewart was blaming Cramer for the recession?...He doesn't remember Stewart telling Cramer, "But this song isn't about you"? Those tapes of Cramer in an interview discussing how he scammed people when he was in hedge funds...just slipped by old Tuck?...guess it's that re-occuring selective memory syndrome that seems to be afflicting a number of Republicans these days. Now they are worried about the financial future of coming generations?

I had hoped that MSM would have already learned from Stewart's first fight with Tucker on Crossfire. That still haven't. Stewart is popular because he speaks to power and tells the truth. He said on more the one occasion that he doesn't just hold Cramer at fault. He was the one that Maned Up and he is the face of what was going on Wall Street and the Banks. I like Cramer but Stewart was right. Those people knew what was happening and didn't do their jobs. I pray that MSM reporters and business reporters start doing their jobs. Don't bowing down to these people of power and do your job. Men like Murdock who owns newspaper and TV stations is a conflict of interest. Where is the line. Also you hosts of these politic talk shows and news stations should be attending the annual white house and correspondence dinners. There is to much conflict. I say to ALL newspaper, TV news anchors and pundits stop the maddness and do your jobs. The public isn't stupid. We see what is going on. You covered Bush's butt for 8 yrs and now look at the mess Obama has now got to try to fix before the american people start blaming him. If we could get our freedom of the press back we all would be off alot better. We don't need a station like Fox peddling fear.

It is rather ironic that a total non-entity such as Carlson is forced to criticize Jon Stewart in order for anyone to know that he is alive. When you look up ?hack? in the dictionary you see Tucker's picture. It is really sad that a self-described ?comedian? actually has to teach the journalistic community their role and reason for existence. Kudos to Jon Stewart.

Tucker Carlson is, obviously, just bitter over being obliterated by Stewart on live TV, and is using this as an opportunity to say, essentially, "It's not that I'm lame, it's that he's partisan!"
Sorry, Tucker; you're lame.
For one thing, Stewart has been perfectly happy to eviscerate Obama when Obama does things that warrant it. For another, Stewart is simply smarter and quicker than Carlson, and Carlson knows it.
Back to irrelevance, Tucker!

Carlson obviously does not watch the daily show. On Monday's show, http://www.hulu.com/watch/61460/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mon-mar-9-2009#s-p1-so-i0 right after he nailed Cramer John went on to nail Obama.

A ha! Carlson got served by Stewart years ago, and it was embarassing, he should know better than to make such an inane comment about John Stewart who is more ideologically neutral, honest and WAY smarter than Carlson is on his best days.

Carlson is trying to elicit some publicity for himself from this Cramer-Stewart episode. It is his tiresome reply to an argument he can't wi= partisan demagogery. As much as he has used it he would know. He hangs around the AEI too much. I'm surprised his daddy hasn't got him another gig. Maybe he has and we are lucky enough he won't be in the public eye. What a tough guy.

It is not that Tucker Carlson was trying to horn in on some publicity. It was that the smackdown of Cramer was so deliciously reminiscent of when it happened to Tucker, that of course he will be contacted for comment from news outlets and will probably be appearing on the talk shows. How embarrassing, though, to bring back something he would prefer to forget. I guess my answers would be false and ****y, too, if I were Tucker.

where ya been hidin' tucker?
under some rock?
Could it be you've got your nose a bit out of joint since your TV 'career' ended thanks to Jon Stewart?
btw - whom are you related to, to have gotten on TV in the first place?

Tucker... you are right Jim Cramer isn't the only one responsible for this mess we're in... so you and your inept, incompetent colleagues can get in line behind him. If any of you had an ounce of integrity you would have done your job as journalists and mouthpieces within the media to expose wrong doing. Yet since you were all so busy telling yourselves how great you are, you didn't have time to get your heads out of your asses and actually find out. Now you want to use the same smoke and mirrors to distract the people from the truth. Obama my ass... YOU YOU YOU!

Hurrah for John Stewart. He said what many of us with no voice have thought for many years. The so-call financial pundits have, like much of the political media, taken the easy road of poor or no research, soft-ball and unasked questions and entertainment rather that real reporting. Too much of the press has held itself out as essential to a democracy while abdicating their r?le as a free press. Good riddance to Crossfire and Cramer and even Carlson.

Jon Stewart doesn't need defending against Tucker Carlson, but, if he did, there is plenty in this comment section. But the hateful crap that was spewed by cleeburke needs to be defended against. Cleeburke's diatribe is the kind of evil bigoted bile that found purchase in the Nazi regime. I was hoping to see more condemnation of his insane ranting in this comment section. I would suggest to the site monitors that they remove cleeburke comment. Free speech is one thing. Hate speech is something entirely different.

Born rich, a Deadhead in his formative years, a libertarian, a social conservative, a thin-skinned coward and an arrogent know-it-all - Tucker is an interesting construction isn't he? And you wonder why his thought process is so completely ***k'd up?

Firstly, who cares what Tucker Carlson says? He's not a journalist and has the personality of a frat-boy, substantiated by his comment on Cramer being "sweaty and pathetic." At least Cramer manned up and faced the music. Carlson has never made a real argument and will probably never get over the light that Stewart shined on the contemporary version of TV news: report each side, regardless of validity and claim your "presenting both sides" then ask "You're thoughts?" I'm only surprised that the Flat Earth Society hasn't gotten airtime...

The Tucker is so yesterday, erh, Bushian. His views are unimportant, small, and limp, judging by the inability to get a show that he is allowed to keep. He dresses nice, but lost his intellectual footing, about the time that Buckley died, or perhaps five years earlier. I like him just the same, at least to talk with at cocktail parties in Georgetown.

This midget bow-tied contrarian hypocrite will do anything to get some air time as he can't do it anyother way. Certainly not by having a show anyone will watch. What a desperate dwarf. He should set up a shoe-shine stand at the RNC office.

As of this posting, there are 76 responses to original article. 72 are anti-Tucker Carlson, 3 are anti-Jon Stewart and 1 is an anti-semetic, fascist diatribe. I'd say Jon Stewart won without breaking a sweat.

Apparently Tucker is privaledged to the secrets of investing in the stock market. Or he would understand that the suckers who are forced to put their hard earned savings on the crap table called the stock market are a trifle upset about the losses they have experienced not just in the past year but over the last 20 years. If the insiders don't stop selling "quarterly hype", the suckers will walk.

This is as usual completely off base from the republicans and this is why Tucker no longer has a show of his own and is rarely asked to appear anywhere anymore. If he bothered to watch the interview, which it seems he didn't, he would have heard Jon Stewart tell everyone including Jim Cramer that he wasn't responsible for the melt down and it was not fair that he had become the public face of it just because of some thing Jon had said about him. They shook hands and agreed like gentlemen to do better and work harder.

This is just another example of republicans rewriting history. Bill O'Reilly is saying the same thing. Jon Stewart didn't"attack" Jim Cramer. He responded to Jim Cramer's ******** attack about the cnbc piece. Cramers ******** criticism of Obama had nothing to do with it.

serious investigative reporting
brought to you by Comedy Central...
what a novel idea! He put to shame every reporter out there and if they were not embarassed by the level of work they have been doing maybe they should look at this as a template of "how to report news"

Let me tell you one thing about Mr Carlson,he absolutely has no balls to really tackle the facts regarding corporate greed in America. It is not the Obama prrsidency that the American people feel outrage about. You are just blowing wind you egotistical moron!

Right wingers like Tucker demonstrate over and over again that they do not understand or appreciate satire, irony, or comedy in general. But wow, they sure do know how to label those who they disagree with, and to shout out vicious names and curses at their enemies. The ideology of "the base" is less a coherant political philosophy and more--much more--a cult. They reside in an alternate universe where their visions of an ideal society are ones that free thinking, intelligent folks would consider hell. Now evidence is emerging (CT scans of the brains of both lefties and righties) that perhaps a quarter of the population is condemned to living with inherently flawed abilities to process complex information and arrive at evidenced based conclusions involving politics, economics, and religion. These people will make it very hard for mankind to survive--and, unfortunately, there is no solution for this dilemma.

How simultaneously hilarious and appalling is it that we have to depend on a guy who hosts a comedy show to point us to the truth about the propaganda spewing of the Cramers of this world? And that their supposed "competitors" can't be relied on to do it?
A lot of us recall the faux "journalism" rammed down our throats toward the end of the dot-bomb/venture capital/telcom debacle and haven't taken these clowns seriously ever since. I'm looking at my own 401K, which hasn't tanked much at all, and thanking my instincts for not having succumbed to the smoke-and-mirrors nonsense the CNBCs of this world put out there every single day.
Pretty sad that an entertainer, albeit a politically savvy one, has to be the one to call it like it is here.

Stewart may be partisan but so is Tucker Carlson. Lets face it folks, John Stewart is a comedian. He is not a reporter. Reporters are suppose to be fair and balance.
John Stewart was sticking up for for the general public who have been fed with lies about the economy by those snake oil salesmen on CNBC and other networks. They all knew that the economy was tanking but they painted a bright picture and we fell for it.

Looks like Carlson is still sore from the drubbing HE got from Stewart; nor has he learned the difference between news and infotainment. As a professional journalist with 40-odd years of experience, I will say without reservation that Stewart is better at that than Carlson, and that politics have nothing to do with it. The core issue is the financial press's general lack of ethics, and CNBC's in this case.

Tucker Carlson?s bow tie and starched undies are emblematic of his ideas.
The media are an adjunct of Wall Street and the Benedict Arnold political class. It?s all rigged to misinform Americans and protect a powerful plutocracy.
Jon Stewart exposed CNBC, but Americans need to start connecting the dots.

John Stewart is a comedian by profession--his show is on 'Comedy Central'--and as such he should be understood and be responsible for what he does as such!
It seems that Stewart likes to take the role of the investigator-journalist and exactly by doing so his 'messages' are more confusing and inapropriately aggressive than entertaining. He shold leave the work of investigative journalism to pro journalists and instead focus on what Stewart does well, taht's, entertaining.
Stewart recently has become quite agressive and confusing.

Of course Carlson missed the point AGAIN. Moreover, Carlson, a cliche in bow ties, calling Cramer pathetic is itself pathetic. I think we all should do what we can to DEMAND that the media do it's job. If the press had followed the trail of pre-Iraq misinformation as doggedly as they persued the stains on Ms. Lewinsky's dress maybe a few more people would be alive today. The Daily Show is not a program I watch but I thank Stewart for once telling the world the Emperor wears no clothes. "Now Tucker, if we're ever gonna find you a job you've got to accept the fact that the 80's ended. To hang on any longer is, well, pathetic."

Politico is so pathetic. You'll reprint McCain's daily earmark finger-wagging and call it "ethics reform". Never work to get an opposite view from the Dems.
When someone like Stewart nails an unethical CNBC goon and you call it "finger wagging" and then track down Tucker Carlson for a rebuttal?
Are you kidding me??

Calderone are you jealous or what? Stewart and his people did an excellent and smart job of journalism; perhaps you and your cronies could take note. He reported the truth with video documentation to support it. CNBC should be ashamed of their contribution to the financial mess. Where were they the last eight years, when things went sour, did they do any research to see what was really happening or did they just become cheerleaders for corporate funding? Stop pretending he was wrong; he was dead-on point and your credibility slip is showing...

Carlson makes it seem like Cramer was the only one that Stewart was calling out. He called out a number of different people on the network. Cramer responded and the media picked up on it. Nothing to do with Obama. He's trying to generate conspiracy theories.

CNBC and the other 'media' still don't get it. The public is sick of the screaming - right- left. They want FACTS, backed up by STATS. You want to debate an issue - then debate those - I don't care about a guys' opinion who has never done anything but ring a bell and blow horn while he's telling me what real wealth is.
Oh - who is Tucker Carlson?

I wish the smart people that make up the news media would examine what stewart is really saying.
He was saying the same thing in 2004 as he is today with cramer. The folks that bring you the news are either so misinformed or are so uneducated that they cant draw the same conclusions that stewart does based on the hard news of the day.
We constantly here commentary and personal innuendo when these so called journalist do interviews.
Why cant they say "this is not a f*&king game"

Carlson's only goal here is to try to elevate himself back into national significance. He knows, as does Jon Stewart, that the network CEOs dont care if they get called out for not serving the public interest. They know that isnt their job. Their job is to convince you that everything is going to be OK. You just need to show up for work, do your job, consume, invest, and go to bed. The networks are the propaganda arm of hierarchical capitalism in the same way that Pravda was for the party bosses in the USSR. This is all just a ridiculous show.

Is Tucker (my last puppy's name)
saying that none of his $$ was
or is at risk? Why is it wrong
for ANYONE regardless of party
to point out to us who are the
people who truly let us and our
$$ down? If this is so wrong of
Jon Stewart and untrue, why are
the law suits against him not
piling outside his door? Think
about it Tucker.

Dear Tucker :
BWAAAH ha ha haa! After Stewart tore him apart, he's finally put himself back together like Dr, Manhattan-oh,wait.Huge,probably-needed chunks of brain are nowhere to be found.
Stewart should invite Carlson to the Daily Show for another disintegration.

Carlson doest have the vrains of a 10yr old,he talks like old people do sex slow and sort of lousy.He is a JERKS JERK,lower rated show ontv and he is crying about DAILY HEHHE cARLSON IS A IDIOT AND DONT KNOW WRONG FROM RIGHT HWHAHAHHAHA

It is amazing how many people -Like Carlson have chosen to miss the point completely. This wasan't about Cramer per se, it was about "news" outlets who have become PR Machines for big business in exchange for acess to high level executives and on-air exclusives. Stewart's point is that there was no room for critical analysis or hard questions because of all the cheerleadding going on at CNBC(and quite frankly most of the media, regardless of the issues). It was great to see Jon Stweart put voice in real terms to some of the anger and indignation I have been feeling at this financial debacle. Job well done Jon! If this makes me a Partisan demagogue, thats a title I can live with.

Sadly, it's Carlson that is the pathetic one. The reasoning he uses betrays either one of two things: either he didn't actually watch the clips, or he has reprehensibly poor analytical skills. I'm betting it's a bit of both. Carlson pulls out the old red herring of claiming somebody said something they didn't say in order to shoot down the fabricated idea. In criticizing Stewart, Carlson says Cramer may be pathetic, but certainly isn't "responsible for the current recession." Of course, this is the very point Stewart made in his interview. Every time Cramer tried to steer the conversation to specifics of his own show, Stewart again and again pointed out his beef was NOT with Cramer but more with CNBC and the business news media in general. And then Carlson continues with the dunderhead statement that Cramer's "real sin was attacking Obama's economic policies." Again, where in the interview was this even mentioned? You'd think that if this were the overwhelming reason Stewart went after Cramer, it would have been a topic in the interview. It wasn't. Carlson is just another example of some elitist, legacy know-it-all with a sense of entitlement thinking Americans are too stupid to pay attention.

Tucker's just mad that Daddy couldn't keep Stewart off of him on Crossfire and CNN had to dump his Nepotism backside as a result. Tucker's the first 10 things wrong with the media. Ms. Nepotism of the D.C. Georgetown Cocktail Party Club.

why are we listening to Tucker again? Oh yeah! He's still trying to get over this on crossfire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
Yeah, that pretty much destroyed Tucker forever.
Stewart, you rock man.

"Carlson, reached Friday, described Stewart as "a partisan demagogue."
Reached? By whom? And for what reason? Do you, Michael Calderone, think Politico is providing any enlightenment or news by providing a platform for this clown?

I can understand why Tucker Carlson is bitter, even years after getting clowned by Stewart and having his career take a dive largely because of it. But hearing him (through a mouthful of sour grapes maybe?) claim that Stewart is just doing Obama's bidding sounds about as ridiculous as hearing that fool Scarborough claim that he and Newt put America back on track during the Clinton years. So far it looks like the repubs will give us plenty of amusement as they take their time wandering off into the wilderness.

I saw nothing partisan coming from Stewart in this particular interview. He saw outrageous, immoral behavior and he stomped on it. It's amazing that - in order to see journalism done as Edward R. Murrow once did it - we have to turn to the Comedy Channel.

Cramer's crime wasn't questioning Obama. The pathetic defense of his actions speaks for itself. If only the "real media" would take a clue from the Daily Show, we might have an independent press again instead of a bunch of blowhards like Tucker Carlson, who is the definition of "partisan demagogue."

I always thought Tucker was a marionette and wondered who was moving his jaws for him.I am sadden to see he is really a human because that means we have one more warped idealogue that is able to make a headline in news reports like this.Stewart was being a journalist so of course Tucker doesn't understand him.

Well, I listened to the third segment. Seems to me that Stewart made good points. Normally, I would not listen to Stewart and Cramer just shouts too much. Frankly, Stewart's stock went up and Cramer is still in the toilet.

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WHOOO! Carlson needs to lick his wounds and get on with life Stewart calling him a dick on his national T.V. show Crossfire was one of the best moments in T.V. history! Also Stewart called Cramer on being the kind of 'hedge-fund insider trading' crook that he that he is, the kind that wiped out his and many others parents 401k's. Listen and hear Cramer's voice grow more & wimpy whiney as stewart produces more & more video evidence.
Then you have that NO-SHOW ******* Santalli! What a slime! Santelli who was screaming at regular people for being 'losers' because they were dumb enough to take teaser rates from banks who couldn't wait to pull the rug out from under thier feet and lose everything- EVERYTHING they owned! ... until it happened to them too. Who is the Govt. bailing out now? Well screw you & your rich conservative pals too Carlson! You don't have the guts to speak truth to power or your just to busy counting coins with Limbaugh while our nation is sinking under the debt 8 years of unchecked GOP rule has wrought on this nation.